All we need is Love

Have you ever thought that the love our moms and caregivers give us in the initials years of our lives make a huge difference in our future outcome?

According to Professor Allan Schore, of University of California, Los Angeles, “the way a baby is treated in the first two years determines whether or not the resulting adult has a fully functioning brain.” 

The image below shows the enormous disparity among a brain that was fostered by its mother, who provides it with nourishment versus a brain that was abandoned and neglected.

The study suggests that 80% of brain cells that an individual will ever have are shaped during the first two years after birth. This means that, if the course of producing brain cells and connections between them goes wrong the insufficiencies are permanent, and this result will lead the person into a “cycle of deprivation” that is lack of educational success, continual unemployment, poverty, crime, and addiction. The reason why this is called “cycle” is because parents of the dismissed child were also treated in the same way, so they are repeating the action without knowing.

All this makes me think about rehabilitation programs, whose goal is to reinsert into our society all the individuals who have an unusual behavior. Jails, meanwhile, try to punish people who transgress the law.

Do you think these programs are useful in terms of integration? Do people who have been scorned when babies are able to change this undesirable omen?

For more information:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/9637682/Whats-the-difference-between-these-two-brains.html